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Genesis

Jacob's last words.  Gn.49.1-28

¹JACOB SUMMONED HIS SONS and said, 'Come near, and I will tell you what will happen to you in days to come.

²Gather round me and listen, you sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel your father.
³Reuben, you are my first-born,
my strength and the first fruit of my vigour,
excelling in pride, excelling in might,
⁴turbulent as a flood, you shall not excel;
because you climbed into your father's bed;
then you defiled his concubine's couch.
⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers,
their spades became weapons of violence.
⁶My soul shall not enter their council,
my heart shall not join their company;
for in their anger they killed men,
wantonly they hamstrung oxen.
⁷A curse be on their anger because it was fierce;
a curse on their wrath because it was ruthless!
I will scatter them in Jacob,
I will disperse them in Israel.
⁸Judah, your brothers shall praise you,
your hand is on the neck of your enemies.
Your father's sons shall do you homage.
⁹Judah, you lion's whelp,
you have returned from the kill, my son,
and crouch and stretch like a lion;
and, like a lion Or lioness, who dare rouse you?
¹⁰The sceptre shall not pass from Judah,
nor the staff from his descendants,
so long as tribute is brought to him
and the obedience of the nations is his.
To the vine he tethers his ass,
¹¹and the colt of his ass to the red vine;
he washes his cloak in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
¹²Darker than wine are his eyes,
his teeth whiter than milk.
¹³Zebulun dwells by the sea-shore,
his shore is a haven for ships,
and his frontier rests on Sidon.
¹⁴Issachar, a gelded ass
lying down in the cattle-pens,
¹⁵saw that a settled home was good
and that the land was pleasant,
so he bent his back to the burden
and submitted to perpetual forced labour.
¹⁶Dan—how insignificant his people,
lowly as any tribe in Israel Or Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel!
¹⁷Let Dan be a viper on the road,
a horned snake on the path,
who bites the horse's fetlock
so that the rider tumbles backwards.

¹⁸For thy salvation I wait in hope, O LORD.

¹⁹Gad is raided by raiders,
and he raids them from the rear.
²⁰Asher shall have rich food as daily fare,
and provide dishes fit for a king.
²¹Naphtali is a spreading terebinth
putting forth lovely boughs.
²²Joseph is a fruitful tree Or a fruitful ben-tree by a spring
with branches climbing over the wall.
²³The archers savagely attacked him,
they shot at him and pressed him hard,
²⁴but their bow was splintered by the Eternal
and the sinews of their arms were torn apart
by the power of the Strong One of Jacob,
by the name of the Shepherd prob. rdg, Heb adds stone of Israel,
²⁵by the God of your father—so may he help you,
by God Almighty—so may he bless you
with the blessings of heaven above,
the blessings of the deep that lurks below.
The blessings of breast and womb
²⁶and the blessings of your father are stronger
than the blessings of the everlasting pools Or hills
and the bounty of the eternal hills.
They shall be on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince among the prince among: or the one cursed by his brothers.


²⁷Benjamin is a ravening wolf:
in the morning he devours the prey,
in the evening he snatches a share of the spoil.'

²⁸These, then, are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father Jacob said to them, when he blessed them each in turn.

Jacob's death, embalming, burial at Machpelah.  Gn.49.29-50.14

²⁹He gave them his last charge and said, 'I shall soon be gathered to my father's kin ; bury me with my forefathers in the cave on the plot of land which belonged to Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰that is the cave on the plot of land at Machpelah east of Mamre in Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial-place. ³¹There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah; there Isaac and his wife Rebecca were buried; and there I buried Leah. ³²The land and the cave on it were bought from the Hittites.' ³³When Jacob had finished giving his last charge to his sons, he drew his feet up on to the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his father's kin.

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